Bottles!!!

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Me and DH are deciding on which bottles to go for for little one and we are torn between tommee tippee and Avent. Anyone had experience with their babies and have recommendations on which one baby likes best?

I am hoping to breastfeed too so I want the ones that are easy for baby to latch onto for DH to help with feeds. Thanks in advance xx

We use Tommee Tippee for now but I won't be buying them again, ours leak all the time and the lids are an absolute pain to pull off/unscrew. There's no grip at all!

Bear in mind if you're hoping to breastfeed, especially longterm, that ideally you should get it all established before introducing bottles. So you hopefully will have a few weeks to sort it all out.

Also that, again, if you are hoping to breastfeed, you will need to express every time you give a bottle to maintain supply. Which, tbh is a PITA, and even with your DH helping out, it's just easier to feed yourself. Get your Dh to help out by fetching snacks and keeping the house running, while you sit and feed.

Some babies don't take to bottles. Some do and refuse the breast once they get the hang.

What I'm trying to say is if breastfeeding is really important to you, and for some people it really is, emotionally as well as practically, the best way is to just bf. If you're happy to give it a go, but aren't really bothered if you end up switching to formula fairly quickly than introducing bottles early on isn't so much of an issue.

I'd avoid nuk they drowned my baby in milk. The flow was way too fast. She found them impossible.

Get the tommee tippee ones- £10 for 6 on Amazon. They come with number 1 teats, change the teats to variflow after about 3 months don't waste money on fast flow. £10 isn't a lot of money if you need to change and you can sell them on easily if needed.

The new ones are £8.99 PER BOTTLE! I can see how new mums would get drawn in but everyone else has survived on the CTN!

Also I wouldn't bother with the small bottles just get the big ones as they will last longer.

I would say wait and see. Don't a pack of 6 that might not work out.

My eldest was ok with silicone teats and we used Tommee Tippee with anti colic contraptions.

My second would only tolerate latex teats and I was concerned about plastic bottle leaching by then so we used NUK glass with latex teats.

Tommee tippee closer to nature bottles are what we have used for ds and dd and have brought ready for dd2. We have got a mixture of the 6 for £10 type plus I brought 4 of the extra anti colic ones for £24

I used tommee tippee with my DS and have recently bought 4 new TT bottles for this one.
They're on a great offer at aldi baby event at the moment!

We used the MAM bottles successfully with combination feeding 1) they are anti colic but mainly because 2) these were the only ones he would take!

I used avent ones, bought a starter pack of two small and two large bottles plus manual pump which saw me through occasional expressing and the large bottles all the way to toddlerhood, only other thing I needed was faster teats after a while.

all babies are different so no need to get any set ideas re not introducing a bottle until a certain age or needing to express if you miss a feed - this certainly didn't apply to me I expressed for the first time at about 2 weeks and never had any supply problem - successfully bf until 12 months. Imo the early introduction to the bottle may well have prevented bottle refusal that a lot of friends experienced. Everyone is different so just try what suits you best.

Deffo don't but tonnes of them just incase try don't take to that bottle! They are fussy little things newborns! Know their own mind!

Definitely Medela with the Calma teat. Amazing! Combination fed very very easily and absolutely no colic EVER!